{"id":152913,"date":"2019-07-31T03:00:48","date_gmt":"2019-07-30T19:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.geek.com\/featured\/-1798066\/"},"modified":"2019-07-31T03:00:48","modified_gmt":"2019-07-30T19:00:48","slug":"mutant-year-zero-and-zombie-driver-are-smart-and-dumb-doomsdays-on-nintendo-switch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/2019\/07\/31\/mutant-year-zero-and-zombie-driver-are-smart-and-dumb-doomsdays-on-nintendo-switch\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Mutant Year Zero\u2019 and \u2018Zombie Driver\u2019 Are Smart and Dumb Doomsdays on Nintendo Switch"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.geek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/mutant-year-zero-zombie-driver-650x366.png?resize=640%2C360&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n<p>I\u2019ve been thinking about the end of the world a lot recently. I\u2019ll let you draw your own conclusions as to why. So while video games exploring post-apocalypses is nothing new (the games I\u2019m writing about here aren\u2019t even new, just ports) having two games about surviving in the wasteland drop on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.geek.com\/games\/everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-nintendo-switch-1685280\/\"  rel=\"noopener\">Nintendo Switch<\/a>\u00a0at the same time did feel a bit like a fate. But while they have some aesthetic similarities, <em>Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden<\/em> and <em>Zombie Driver: Immortal Edition<\/em> are ultimately very different games. One is pretty smart and the other is super dumb.<\/p>\n<p>This isn\u2019t some kind of riddle. <em>Zombie Driver<\/em> is the dumb one. So let\u2019s talk about that first, although there\u2019s really not that much to talk about beyond the title. In <em>Zombie Driver<\/em> you control a car cruising through a zombie nightmare. The top-down arcade perspective turns it into a kind of <em>Grand Theft Auto 2<\/em> meets <em>Dead Rising<\/em>. And powering up your vehicles with external upgrades as well as weapons you find in-game has a <em>Twisted Metal<\/em> car combat quality, too.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t mean for \u201cdumb\u201d to be a complete insult. There are cheap thrills to be had mowing through the undead with four wheels. And the performance holds up pretty nicely with lots of zombie bodies, flames, bullets, blood, rain, and explosions on screen. But there\u2019s very little staying power. I got my fill after a couple of rounds of wave-based survival and violent racing modes. As soon as the story asked me to pump endless bullets into a stationary boss with recharging health I tapped out. In the end I think I\u2019ll remember this about as well as the upcoming inexplicable <a href=\"https:\/\/www.geek.com\/movies\/zombieland-double-tap-trailer-resurrects-this-franchise-1797479\/\"  rel=\"noopener\"><em>Zombieland<\/em><\/a>\u00a0sequel.<\/p>\n<div class=\"flex-video widescreen embed\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-WSleXLwqr0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>For something much more likely to stick in your brain check out <em>Mutant Year Zero<\/em>. It\u2019s funny this came out on Switch so soon after fellow turn-based strategy game <a href=\"https:\/\/www.geek.com\/games\/fire-emblem-three-houses-and-wolfenstein-youngblood-teach-the-youth-on-nintendo-switch-1797877\/\"  rel=\"noopener\"><em>Fire Emblem: Three Houses<\/em><\/a>. But whereas that game is all about the pageantry and grand strategy of guiding upstanding anime teens, <em>Mutant Year Zero<\/em> is gritty down-to-earth desperate tactics where you play as a literal pig.<\/p>\n<p>Based on the tabletop game, <em>Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden<\/em> has you controlling radiation-resistant Stalkers wandering through the remains of the world. Occasionally they\u2019ll pick up an iPod or something and ask why anyone would want a flashing box with fruit on it. Good voicing acting helps the strong world-building. And while the working-<a href=\"http:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/index.php\" title=\"\u672c\u7db1\u9801\u63d0\u4f9b\u4e00\u500b\u65b9\u4fbf\u7684\u5e73\u53f0, \u70ba\u5927\u5bb6\u914d\u5c0d\u96fb\u8166\u88dc\u7fd2,IT freelance, \u79c1\u4eba\u8001\u5e2b , PHP\u88dc\u7fd2, HTML\u88dc\u7fd2, CSS\u88dc\u7fd2, JavaScript\u88dc\u7fd2, XML, Java\u88dc\u7fd2,Server\u88dc\u7fd2, MySQL\u88dc\u7fd2, \u4e2d\u5b78\u96fb\u8166\u79d1\u79c1\u4eba\u88dc\u7fd2, \u5728\u8077\u4eba\u58eb\u96fb\u8166\u63d0\u5347\u88dc\u7fd2,\u5c08\u696d\u8003\u8a66\u96fb\u8166 \u88dc\u7fd2,\u96fb\u8166\u5716\u50cf\u8a2d\u8a08\u96fb\u8166\u88dc\u7fd2, gra\">class<\/a> talking animal heroes baffled me at first, I grew to appreciate them in a funny <em>Star Fox<\/em> kind of way.<\/p>\n<p>Battles in <em>Mutant Year Zero<\/em> are no laughing matter though. While there are similarities to something like &#8220;<em>Fallout<\/em> meets <em>XCOM<\/em>,&#8221; your three-person squad is ultimately much weaker compared to the vast majority of enemies you\u2019ll encounter. Reloading a gun that holds three bullets takes up one of two actions for a turn. Moving especially far takes up both. Even as you gain strength by leveling up, finding new armor, upgrading weapons, and gaining new skills with mutation points, brute forcing your way through a battle basically never works.<\/p>\n<div class=\"flex-video widescreen embed\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/M-K4I1bajQQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Instead, you\u2019ll have to wrap your head around the game\u2019s intriguing fusion of real-time exploration and turn-based battles. Outside of combat you walk around the world like normal, taking in the sights (even if the blurriness of Unreal Engine 4 games on Switch strikes again). As you spot enemies, creep around them and turn off your flashlight to avoid drawing their attention. Split up your party to get in a better position. And ambush targets when the time is right.<\/p>\n<p>In theory I like this level of thought you can put into preparation. When it all comes together you can pick off an entire horde of enemies one by one with silent weapons before they even notice. But in practice the game is so hard that this stealth feels like a requirement and not an extra layer of creative combat flexibility, and I kind of resented it in the end.<\/p>\n<p>Still, there\u2019s nothing quite like <em>Mutant Year Zero<\/em>. And even if you already played the game on other platforms there\u2019s a new expansion, <em>Seed of Evil<\/em>, out alongside this Switch release. For more on Nintendo Switch (that doesn\u2019t have to do with the end of the world) check out these <a href=\"https:\/\/www.geek.com\/games\/play-these-nintendo-switch-games-before-pokemon-sword-and-shield-1793443\/\"  rel=\"noopener\">games to play right now<\/a> and get ready for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.geek.com\/games\/nintendo-switch-lite-is-your-next-nintendo-handheld-1795121\/\"  rel=\"noopener\">Nintendo Switch Lite<\/a>\u00a0coming later this September.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Mutant-Year-Zero-Deluxe-Nintendo-Switch\/dp\/B07PL9STR2\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1705462 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.geek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/SEE_IT_HERE_GEEK-1.jpg?resize=178%2C51&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"178\" height=\"51\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.geek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/mutant-year-zero-zombie-driver-650x366.png\" width=\"650\" height=\"366\"><\/figure>\n<p>I&rsquo;ve been thinking about the end of the world a lot recently. I&rsquo;ll let you draw your own conclusions as to why. So while video games exploring post-apocalypses is nothing new (the games [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.geek.com\/games\/mutant-year-zero-and-zombie-driver-are-smart-and-dumb-doomsdays-on-nintendo-switch-1798066\/\">&lsquo;Mutant Year Zero&rsquo; and &lsquo;Zombie Driver&rsquo; Are Smart and Dumb Doomsdays on Nintendo Switch<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.geek.com\/\">Geek.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/2019\/07\/31\/mutant-year-zero-and-zombie-driver-are-smart-and-dumb-doomsdays-on-nintendo-switch\/\">\u95b1\u8b80\u5168\u6587 <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"slim_seo":[],"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[2054,2,6424,2047,2206,6425,6426,16,7],"tags":[398,402,397,414,413,410,409,407,478,481,482,480,479,408,406,399,400,394,10,401,396,403,412,411,395,405,404,477],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7prtj-DMl","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152913"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152913"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":152914,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152913\/revisions\/152914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}